The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-05-21
ORIGIN OF PROVERBS.
The Sources From Which Some of the Most
Frequently Quoted Are Derived.

The Sources From Which Some of the Most
Frequently Quoted Are Derived.
The following are from the Bible:
There is death in the pot. -
Kings, iv. 40.
''Lovely and pleasant in their lives,
and in death they were not divided"
is spoken of Saul and Jonathan.-2
Samuel, i. %.
"a man after his own heart. II
Samuel, xiii. II.
''The apple of his eye."-Deuter-
onomy, xix. 81.
- still small VOICE, II Kings,
INK H.
Escaped with the skin of my teeth"
job, xix. 20.
spreading himself like a green bay
tree. Psalms, xXxvii. 30.
Heap Goals of fire upon his head. -
Proverbs. XIV. p.
"Riches certainly make themselves
wings" not take, as often quoted
Proverbs, xiii. 3.
mo new thing under the sum-
Ecclesiastics, i. 2.
"Of making books there is no end"
-Ecclesiastics, xii. II.
Peace, peace when there is no
peace" made famous and popular by
Patrick Henry, is from jeremiah, viii. ,.
There are many more from the sacred
writings which "if We search We shall
! find. "
The popular quotations from Shaks-
peare are numerous. One or two,
often misquoted, will suffice:
"All that glistens is not gold. "-Mer-
chant of Venice. Generally quoted:
"All is not gold that glitters."
Screw your courage to the sticking
place" Not poinD.-Macbeth.
Hang out your banners on the out
ward (not outer) walls. Macbeth.
keep the word of promise to our
(not the) ear, and break it to our hope. "
Macbeth.
The old authors are rich in quota
tons, such as the following:
ut is an ill wind turns none to good
is by Thomas Tasser, 1888, though
often quoted, at is an ill wind blows
no one any good.
christmas comes but once Il year
is by the same author, and Look ere
you leap by the same, from which
Hudibras took his Look before yor
ere you leap" but often quoted "Loob
before you leap"
"Out of mind as soon as out of sight
is by Lord Brooke, though usually
quoted ''Out of sight, out of mind"
Here are a few from Milton:
what though the field be lost, all il
not lost"
awake! arise! or be forever fallen. ,
Necessity the tYrant's plea"
THAT old man eloquent"
"Peace hath her victories"
Roger L'Estrarge wrote; "Thougl
this may be play to you, It's death tt
u.s.
Hudibras is full of quotations;
"An cry and no wool, " not little wool
as usually quoted.
Count your chickens ere (not before
they're Matched"
Through thick and thin," is from
r Dryden.
, when Greek meets Greek then come
the tug of war; is a usual quotation
1t should be, when Greeks joine
4 Greeks then was the tug of war, and i
q from Nat Lees ''Rival Queens"
! ''Of two evils have chose the least,
is from Prior.
LAS clear as whistle" is by Byron
, not Lord Byron of this century, but o
, 1868.
t Goldsmith has "Ask me no question
e and I'll tell you no fibs" (not lies).
5 His Gods image cut in ebony,
> Thomas Fuller.
wise and mastery inactivity" b
Macintosh in 1871, is generally attriI
uted to Randolph.
e First in war, first in peace and frs
y in the hearts of his fellow-citizens
t (not countrymen), was incorporate
y into the resolutions presented to tn
Il House of Representative December
# 1899, by General Henry Lee.
e millions for defense but not or
t cent for tribute" was by Charles {
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